Louisiana Distressed Property & Sheriff Sale Leads

Sheriff sales, code enforcement cases and hearings, blight judgments, condemned buildings, and tax-adjudicated parcels from Orleans, East Baton Rouge, and Ascension parishes, all in one lead feed. Every lead comes back in the same shape with the property address, case number, status, key dates, and a link to the original record. Turn on monitor mode and schedule it to get only the leads that are new or changed since your last run.

Monitor mode

Monitor mode is the way most people use this Actor. Set onlyNewOrChanged to true and add a schedule, for example every weekday at 7 AM Central. The Actor remembers every lead it delivered for that exact search, per source, in a named key-value store. The first run delivers every matching lead up to maxResults as new. Later runs deliver only leads that are new, or whose status, open state, hearing date, sale date, or owner changed, as new or changed. Unchanged leads are skipped, and you are not charged for them.

Sample monitor input:

{
  "onlyNewOrChanged": true,
  "parishes": ["orleans", "eastBatonRouge"],
  "distressTypes": ["sheriffSale", "codeHearing", "condemnedBuilding"],
  "maxResults": 5000
}

A few things are worth knowing before you rely on it:

• History is keyed on each source and on the openCasesOnly and since filters, but not on maxResults. Adding or removing a parish or distress type only starts or stops that source's history. If you change openCasesOnly or since, including a "since" date that you move forward each week, the Actor starts a fresh history and reports every matching lead as new again. Keep those filters fixed for a monitor.
• With openCasesOnly on, a case that closes simply drops out of the search, so the monitor never reports it. Turn openCasesOnly off if you want to see cases close.
• maxResults caps what a run delivers, and skipped leads do not count toward it. Set it high enough to cover a busy week, or the rest waits for the next run.
• Each source remembers its most recent 250,000 leads, which is far more than any source publishes today.
• If the saved history is ever unreadable, the run fails before charging anything rather than reporting every lead as new again. The error names the record to delete from the louisiana-distressed-property-leads-monitor store.
• Two schedules running the same search at the same time share one history, and the run that finishes last wins.

What does it do?

Distressed property data in Louisiana is spread across a sheriff sale site, two city open data portals, and several datasets that each use their own columns and status codes. This Actor reads eight official sources, maps every row into one normalized lead record with a distressType field, and gives each lead a stable leadId so you can merge runs safely.

Distress type	Parish	Source
sheriffSale	Orleans, Ascension	Sheriff's Office sales calendar on CivilView SalesWeb, scheduled real estate sales
codeHearing	Orleans	New Orleans Code Enforcement Hearings
codeEnforcementCase	Orleans	New Orleans Code Enforcement All Cases
blightJudgment	Orleans	New Orleans Code Enforcement Abatements (guilty judgments in abatement)
propertyMaintenance	Orleans	New Orleans grass, graffiti, Chapter 66, and minimum property maintenance cases
condemnedBuilding	East Baton Rouge	Baton Rouge Condemnations
taxAdjudicated	East Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge Adjudicated Parcels (properties taken for unpaid taxes)

It reads public pages and the public Socrata APIs behind data.nola.gov and data.brla.gov, so there is no browser, no proxy, and no login involved. On October 30, 2026, a run with the default filters found about 31,600 open leads: about 15,000 open code enforcement cases, 5,600 property maintenance cases, 3,100 blight judgments, 2,900 code hearings, 4,500 adjudicated parcels, 180 condemned buildings, and 245 scheduled sheriff sales.

Who is it for?

• Real estate investors and wholesalers looking for motivated sellers before a property hits the market.
• Cash buyers, house flippers, and land bankers who follow sheriff sales and tax-adjudicated lots.
• Demolition, board-up, lawn care, and remediation contractors who work blighted and condemned properties.
• Title, lending, and community development teams who track blight and code liens by neighborhood.

How to use

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Optionally pick parishes and distress types under Filters, or leave them empty to get every source.
3. Choose whether to keep only open cases and set a start date.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Open the Output tab to preview leads, then export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.
6. For a lead feed, turn on monitor mode and add a schedule.

Input

Field	Type	Description
onlyNewOrChanged	true or false	Monitor mode. Outputs only leads that are new or changed since this search last ran.
parishes	list	orleans, eastBatonRouge, or ascension. Empty means every parish.
distressTypes	list	Any of sheriffSale, codeHearing, codeEnforcementCase, blightJudgment, propertyMaintenance, condemnedBuilding, and taxAdjudicated. Empty means every type.
openCasesOnly	true or false	Default true. Keeps only open cases, scheduled sheriff sales, and active condemnations.
since	date	Earliest lead date, YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive.
maxResults	number	Most leads to deliver in one run, across every source. Default 1000, maximum 100,000.

The lead date is the filing date for code cases, blight judgments, and property maintenance cases, the hearing date for hearings, the sale date for sheriff sales, the date a building was listed as condemned, and January 1 of the tax sale year for adjudicated parcels. Leads come newest first within each source, in the order of the table above. If a parish and distress type have no source, for example Ascension code hearings, the run fails right away with a list of what each parish covers.

Sample input:

{
  "parishes": ["orleans"],
  "distressTypes": ["blightJudgment", "codeEnforcementCase"],
  "openCasesOnly": true,
  "since": "2026-01-01",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Output

Each lead is one dataset item. This is a real East Baton Rouge record:

{
  "leadId": "EBR-CN-130",
  "distressType": "condemnedBuilding",
  "parish": "East Baton Rouge",
  "city": "Baton Rouge",
  "address": "1557 APPLE ST",
  "zip": "70802",
  "fullAddress": "1557 APPLE ST, Baton Rouge, LA 70802",
  "caseNumber": "BC-110584",
  "caseType": "Condemned building",
  "status": "CONDEMNED - OPEN",
  "statusDetail": null,
  "isOpen": true,
  "leadDate": "2026-08-21",
  "filedDate": "2026-09-23",
  "statusDate": "2026-09-24",
  "hearingDate": null,
  "saleDate": null,
  "owner": null,
  "ownerMailingAddress": null,
  "latitude": 30.4351225,
  "longitude": -91.1717265,
  "details": {
    "listedDate": "2026-08-21",
    "introducedDate": "2026-09-09",
    "demolitionDate": null,
    "demolitionCost": 4800,
    "funding": "CDBG",
    "councilDistrict": "10"
  },
  "suspectDates": {},
  "source": "City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge Open Data, Condemnations",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.brla.gov/d/uu23-j77y",
  "recordUrl": "https://data.brla.gov/resource/uu23-j77y.json?id=130",
  "changeType": "notTracked"
}

You can download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or read them through the Apify API.

• leadId is stable across runs: a source prefix plus the source's own ID, for example SALE-ORLEANS-2219211754, NOLA-CE-338643, or EBR-AJ-647268. A New Orleans hearing ID also carries the hearing date and time, because one case can have several hearings.
• fullAddress joins the street, city, LA, and ZIP, ready for mailing or geocoding. If the source has no city, the parish is used instead.
• owner is the defendant for sheriff sales and the owner of record for adjudicated parcels. The code enforcement and condemnation sources do not publish owners.
• details holds source-specific fields: the plaintiff, attorney, writ amount, and terms for sheriff sales, the previous hearing and inspection result for hearings, demolition cost and funding for condemnations, and assessed value, homestead exemption, and flood zone for adjudicated parcels.
• Adjudicated parcels carry the middle of the parcel outline as latitude and longitude. Points outside Louisiana are dropped. About half of them, mostly vacant lots, have no street address in the source, so use the coordinates, caseNumber (the assessment number), and the subdivision and lot in details to find them.
• Placeholder values such as N/A or a 1900 date become null. A date more than a day in the future, or a scheduled date more than a year out, is published as null, and the raw value is kept in suspectDates.
• changeType is new or changed in monitor mode and notTracked otherwise.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing.

• Distressed property record: $5.00 per 1,000 leads delivered to your dataset ($0.005 each).
• Actor start: Apify's standard start event ($0.00005).
• There is no separate charge per dataset item.

In the 30 days to October 29, 2026, New Orleans filed about 730 new code enforcement and property maintenance cases, and about 245 sheriff sales were on the calendar for the next three months. A daily monitor of every source usually delivers a few thousand new or changed leads a month at most, roughly $5 to $15 a month. A full pull of every open lead (about 31,600) costs about $158, so filters and maxResults are worth using. You can cap any run with Apify's maximum charge setting. The Actor stops cleanly at your limit, and you are only charged for leads that actually reach your dataset.

Estimated compute cost

Default memory is 512 MB. In test runs on October 30, 2026, a 100-lead run took about 23 seconds and used 0.003 compute units (about $0.001), and a 1,586-lead run took about 28 seconds and used 0.004 compute units. Most of that time is the sheriff sale calendars, which are read politely one page at a time. A full pull of every open lead (about 31,600) takes about a minute, on the order of $0.01 in compute on top of the event charges. A daily monitor scans each source in full to find changes, so it costs about the same compute as a full pull but only charges for the leads it delivers. A monitor run of the 176 East Baton Rouge condemned buildings took about 3 seconds.

Data sources and freshness

• Sheriff sales: the Orleans Parish and Ascension Parish sheriff sale calendars on CivilView SalesWeb, scheduled real estate sales only. Sales are often postponed or stopped, so check status and the record link before you act.
• New Orleans: Code Enforcement All Cases (CC0), Code Enforcement Hearings, Code Enforcement Abatements, and Minimum Property Maintenance, published by the City of New Orleans on data.nola.gov. Only the cases dataset carries an explicit license. The other three are published on the same open data portal without a license field. All four were updated on October 29, 2026.
• East Baton Rouge: Condemnations and Adjudicated Parcel, published by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge on data.brla.gov and marked Public Domain.

Every record carries source, sourceUrl, and recordUrl so you can trace it back. New judgments in the New Orleans abatements dataset have slowed since 2022, but the city still updates the cases in it. Adjudicated parcels publish only a tax sale year, so since matches on that year.

If a source is down, slow, or blocked, the Actor skips that page after at most 25 seconds and tries the remaining sources. Each HTTP read and each source page has its own 25-second deadline, with at most three HTTP attempts including backoff. The Actor stops scheduling new pages after about 240 seconds, and delivered leads are kept. A full pull of every open lead still fits in that window. Runs with delivered leads succeed with a partial-results warning; if a source fails and no leads were delivered, the run fails honestly. Per-source fetch and delivery progress is logged. If the platform moves a run to another server, it resumes where it stopped and never delivers or charges a lead twice.

Is it legal to use this data?

The Actor reads public records that the parishes, cities, and sheriffs publish for anyone to view or download. The data is provided as is, without any guarantee that it is complete, current, or accurate. It is not a title search, a lien certificate, or legal advice, so confirm anything important with the sheriff, the city, or the parish before you bid, buy, or contact anyone. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any parish, city, or sheriff's office.

Owner and defendant names are personal data even when a public office publishes them. If you contact people from these records, you are responsible for following the rules that apply to you, such as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, Do Not Call registries, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act where it applies, and any privacy laws where you operate.

API and integrations

You can start this Actor and read its results with the Apify API, the Apify Python and JavaScript clients, or the Apify CLI. The API returns each run's dataset in the same formats as the Console.

Apify integrations can pass results on when a run finishes, for example to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, or your own webhook. Set them up on the Actor's Integrations tab, and pair them with a schedule for a hands-off feed.

FAQ

Do I need an account or API key for any of the sources? No. Every source is public and needs no login.

Why are some parishes missing a distress type? Each parish publishes different records. Orleans has sheriff sales and every code enforcement source, East Baton Rouge has condemned buildings and adjudicated parcels, and Ascension has sheriff sales. More parishes can be added as they publish usable data.

Why do code enforcement leads have no owner? The New Orleans and Baton Rouge code enforcement datasets do not publish owner names. Match fullAddress against the parish assessor if you need one.

Why does the same case appear as a code case and a hearing? They are different events. The case is the violation, and each hearing is a scheduled date in front of a hearing officer. Use caseNumber to join them.

How do I get only one kind of lead? Pick it in distressTypes. Only the sources that publish that type are read, and you are only charged for the leads delivered.

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Feedback and custom requests

Found a bug, a wrong value, or a source that changed? Open an issue in the Issues tab on this Actor's page. Need another field, filter, or source, or a version built for your team? Describe it in the Issues tab as a custom request.

Fetch budget configuration

Operators can change the per-page source deadline and the run-level page-scheduling watchdog with ACTOR_SOURCE_BUDGET_SECONDS (default 25) and ACTOR_FETCH_BUDGET_SECONDS (default 240). Values must be finite positive seconds and may be raised above the defaults for very large pulls. Deadlines never cancel an in-progress dataset write or checkpoint. Large searches may return partial results if the watchdog expires; inspect the run status and source warnings before treating results as complete.